This Ain’t All Folks

“For the LORD takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the humble with salvation.” (Psalm 149:4).

This is a Psalm of praise from God’s people toward Him for salvation and justice. The Hebrew people suffered for many years under various kinds of oppressors but they remembered the promise of God to “… He will beautify the humble with salvation.,” or as one translation puts it, “deliver the oppressed.”
This is the point that many missed in Jesus. He did come to deliver His people; first from their sin and only a later time from the injustice of this world. This brings us to two very important keys: First, we become His people, not by lineage but by faith. Are you His? We become His when we receive the forgiveness of our sins as a gift because of the payment that Jesus made on Calvary’s cross. Second, every injustice, every sick or hungry child, every evil dictator reminds us that the Lord will deliver the oppressed, that Jesus is coming again. Face every injustice with the assurance that Jesus is coming again!